by Admin
Sep 5, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has announced his intention to execute 30 of his officials on the charges of negligence to avert the flood that led to the deaths of 4000 people.
This was disclosed by Chosun TV media, a South Korean media. This came after a North Korean official whose name was withheld due to security reasons, revealed to the media station that between 20 and 30 leaders in North Korea had been charged with corruption and dereliction of duty, with the state sentencing them to capital punishment.
In his statement he said ““It has been determined that 20 to 30 cadres in the flood-stricken area were executed at the same time late last month,”. The report which was withheld to be reported by western media due to the sensitivity of the report.
However the North Korean Central News Agency reported that the country’s supreme leader has ordered strict punishment who were meant to avert the disaster flood that hit the Chagang province in July, which killed an estimated number of 4,000 lives while displacing more than 15,000 people.
The names of the officials were to be “strictly punished” be released but Kang Bong-hoon, the secretary of Chagang province provincial party committee for the past five years, was among the leaders dismissed by Kim in an emergency meeting during the flooding disaster.
Lee Il-gyu, a former North Korean diplomat, revealed to Chosun TV that it was clear that officials in the province were “so anxious that they don’t know when their necks will fall off.”
The North Korean leader who was seen last month surveying the damage caused by the floods has also slammed reports from South Korea about the death toll, denying the allegations that thousands were killed.
Prodesq gathered that this would not be the first time North Korea’s supreme leader will order the execution of his officials, it was gathered that in 2019, Kim ordered the execution of Kim Hyok Chol, an envoy sent to the United States to secure a nuclear deal with the then President Donald Trump.